I’ve started a little project to look at availability of public transport across Manchester. To keep things easy to follow I’m going to split up the different elements of the project between blog posts.

First off, I want to know all the bus routes in Greater Manchester and I want to know which ones go where.

There are two elements to where: (1) where are the bus stops for each route and (2) which administrative ward of Manchester are they in. That’s what I’ll work out in this post.

The end product looks like this:

Administrative wards of Manchester colour-coded by number of bus routes

Pulling Out All the Stops

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) show all the bus routes in Greater Manchester on this webpage. It looks like this:

I’m going to pull the information from it using the Requests library and interpret that html information using…